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...requested, but it's still a load. Bush wants to end taxation of stock dividends and accelerate income-tax reductions already in the pipeline. The cuts have been criticized for probably delivering too little immediate punch while risking fiscal disaster in the long term. But they could help Bush avoid the fate of his father, who won a popular war in 1991 and 21 months later was tossed out of office. A tax cut would let Bush show action on the economy as the election draws nearer...
...parody war in Grenada had a few captive American medical students to force its way onto the agenda. Some people believe that Franklin Roosevelt personally, deliberately and even dishonestly maneuvered a reluctant America into World War II. But World War II was history boiling over and impossible to avoid one way or another...
...investigating what went wrong. Its rules require that two agents handle informants, in part to avoid inappropriate relationships. And the large payments to Leung would have required approval from supervisors. When FBI Director Robert Mueller learned details of the case, say bureau sources, he was furious. He removed the division director, named a special task force to investigate the case and moved the entire human-asset operation to the new office of intelligence...
...outbreak, worried that word of a mysterious new disease spreading on the mainland would crush commerce. In his first comments on the disease?coming five months after the initial signs of the illness?Minister of Health Zhang Wenkang on April 3 scoffed at the WHO's warnings to avoid travel in southern China, believed to be the source of SARS. "It is perfectly safe to come to China to work, travel and hold business meetings," he insisted...
...little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk to resurrection. "We are keen to avoid further friction," says a senior French Foreign Ministry official. The watchword in Paris seems to have changed from principle to pragmatism. The first fences to mend are those with some of France's European Union partners. In Athens last week, E.U. leaders offered a picture of comity as they formally...